Cricket,
known as the gentlemen's game, is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams
of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular
22-yard long pitch.
One team
bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and
fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the
batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his
bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there
without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the
end of an innings. In professional cricket the length of a game ranges from 20
overs (of six bowling deliveries) per side to Test cricket played over five
days. The Laws of Cricket are maintained by the International Cricket Council
(ICC).
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